Christopher Chan wrote:
> >
>> With reference to your other message in this thread, MailScanner calls
>> spamd/clamd as part of the process but the real value in my mind is the
>> granular handling in MailScanner which is sort of complete overkill but
>> it totally works and scratches about every itch you ever had in running
>> a mail server.
>
> I'm sure the same can be said of mimedefang and more. When I find
> something is not met by the postfix provided mechanisms, I'll take a
> look at these other solutions.
MimeDefang is about as efficient as you can get because it multiplexes the
milter hooks separately as needed between the front/back end processes so it
doesn't keep a perl process running for every sendmail process and you don't
have fast operations waiting for slow ones to complete - and it runs
spamassassin in the backend daemon processes instead of starting a new copy for
each message. Plus, it splits out the attachments only once for as many
scanning operations as you configure.
In theory, you can run MimeDefang as a postfix milter these days but I don't
know if it actually works.
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Les Mikesell
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